S. Berliner, III's Champlain College
* - The city in the far northeastern corner of New York State,
[Ah! But see Spelling on page 1.]
If you love the North Country or the Adirondack Mountains,
you'll love the Adirondack Museum smack
dab in the heart of the Adirondacks at Blue Mountain Lake, New York. It tells
the story of the Adirondacks far better than any book could. I heartily
recommend a visit! If you can't get there, you may wish to visit my
Adirondacks page.
You will find some yarns about my time at Champlain there.
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This CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE was in
Don't even think of it!
Plattsburgh, New York
THIS SCHOOL IS !
DO APPLY FOR ADMISSION!
{Save yourself a lot of embarrassment}
(especially if you don't even know the meaning of the word "defunct"!)
[See further admonition below.]
S. Berliner, III's
Champlain College
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CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE
of Plattsburgh*, New York
(the late, if unlamented - NOT the newer
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This page has now been visited
Champlain College of Burlington, Vermont,
nor any of the others that keep coming out of the woodwork!)
times since the counter was installed.

The seal of ACUNY (not Champlain, alone), with Mohawk, Sampson, and Champlain,
left, center, and right on the scroll (from the title page of the Gilbert book).
on the northwestern shore of Lake Champlain,
just south of the Canadian border and Montréal, is Plattsburg
(no "h");
the Pennsylvania city far to the southwest, has an h on the end -
Pittsburgh -
but Champlain College was located in Plattsburg
(no matter what they call it now!).
(17 Jul 09)
An alumus of Harpur College/Binghamton U. sent in this historical
narrative {edited slightly):
(24 Oct 09)
Your facts are pretty good. I do have some corrections though (you even said your info was probably wrong).I met Amy Gilbert when I was an undergrad at Harpur. She was already retired and passed soon after I graduated. As you said, she wrote the history of ACUNY, she was actually a professor at Champlain College. She gave me a copy of her book.
Here's what I understand happened:
Triple Cities College was a contract college, sponsored by NYS under the supervision of Syracuse U. It performed the same task as the ACUNY schools, but Syracuse after the contract years was going to shut it down; the state, through a local grass roots political movement, that included T. J. Watson of IBM, stepped in and purchased it and renamed it Harpur College. Watson was key to Syracuse getting involved to begin with and provided one of the main buildings in Endicott where it all began.
Champlain and Sampson, in 1949/50; the assets are transferred to Harpur College. To this day, if you go into the vast stacks at the Bartle Library, you will find books from Champlain and Sampson. Little else still exists. Actually, staff moved as well. I know Professor Gilbert moved but I think there were some others too.
[If you still insist on applying, click here.]
If you think this admonition and the one at the top of the page are a gag, think again!
I have had a steady trickle of requests for application forms - really, truly.
[See further admonition on the main page.]
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